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ἡμίσεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίσεια

Structure: ἡμισει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: v. sub h(/misus.

Sense

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ψῆφοι δέ εἰσιν χαλκαῖ, αὐλίσκον ἔχουσαι ἐν τῷ μέσῳ, αἱ μὲν ἡμίσειαι τετρυπημέναι, αἱ δὲ ἡμίσειαι πλήρεισ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 68 2:1)
  • "τρηχέωσ δὲ περιεφθέντεσ, καὶ οὐχ ἣκιστα Ἀθηναῖοι, τῶν αἱ ἡμίσειαι τῶν νεῶν τετρωμέναι ἦσαν, δρησμὸν ἐβούλευον εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα" καίτοι τὴν πρὸ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ ἀναχώρησιν οὕτωσ ὀνομάσαι μᾶλλον δ’ ὀνειδίσαι δεδόσθω· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 34 8:1)
  • οὐ καὶ ἐν τούτῳ σαφὲσ ὅτι αἱ ἀπὸ τῶν δυνατωτάτων ἡμίσειαι χάριτεσ πλέον ἢ ὅλον τὸ παρὰ τοῦ ἰδιώτου δώρημα δύνανται; (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 8 5:4)
  • εἰ δ’ ἡ πόλισ δοίη ἑκάστῃ αὐτῶν ἴσα ἀνδράποδα, αἱ δὲ κοινωσάμεναι τὴν τύχην καινοτομοῖεν, οὕτωσ ἄν, εἰ μία εὑρ́οι, πάσαισ ἂν λυσιτελὲσ ἀποδείξειεν, εἰ δὲ δύο ἢ τρεῖσ ἢ τέτταρεσ ἢ αἱ ἡμίσειαι εὑρ́οιεν, δῆλον ὅτι <ἔτι> λυσιτελέστερα ἂν τὰ ἔργα ταῦτα γίγνοιτο. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 32:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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